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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4526368/

Playing tetris after a traumatic event may help prevent traumatic flashbacks.
I remember when we would hang out at a certain pizza join in college while studying, they had a stand up Tetris machine. After several weeks of randomly playing that, I would have dreams about tetris block moving in front of my face.

I also spent 2 summers mowing lawns for the city, big lawns, like centers of boulevards, grass as far as you can see. I also found that I had dreams of grass moving past my face the same way it moves past you while mowing.

When I had my traumatic event, I remember having the dead guy's face swim up in front of me over and over while sleeping.


All the same mental issue, it's interesting that just now someone realized that the brain REALLY likes repetition and that maybe finding a way to replace a bad mental repetition with a better one would work.
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